Lyubov Mikhailovna Ovcharova (russian: Любовь Михайловна Овчарова; born 23 October 1995) is a Russian

freestyle wrestler Freestyle wrestling is a style of wrestling originated from Great Britain and the United States. Along with Greco-Roman, it is one of the two styles of wrestling contested in the Olympic Games. American high school and men's college wrestling i ...

. She won the silver medal in the women's 59kg event at the

2019 World Wrestling Championships The 2019 World Wrestling Championships were held in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan from 14 September to 22 September 2019. The tournament served as qualification for the 2020 Summer Olympics, the top six wrestlers from each category earned their NOCs a qu ...

held in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan. In 2021, she competed at the

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in Tokyo, Japan.

Career

At the

2017 European U23 Wrestling Championship The 2017 European U23 Wrestling Championships was the 3rd edition of European U23 Wrestling Championships of combined events, and took place from March 28 to 2 April in Szombathely, Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked cou ...

held in Szombathely, Hungary, Ovcharova won the gold medal in the women's 60 kg event. At the

2017 European Wrestling Championships The 2017 European Wrestling Championships was held in Novi Sad, Serbia, from 2 to 7 May 2017. Medal table Team ranking Medal summary Men's freestyle * The winner of the silver medal in the 97 kg category, Anzor Boltukayev from Russia, was ...

held in Novi Sad, Serbia, she also won the gold medal in the women's 60kg event. In the final, she defeated

Anastasija Grigorjeva Anastasija Grigorjeva (born 12 May 1990) is a Latvian freestyle wrestler, who won gold at the 2010, 2013 and 2016 European Championships. She has also won two bronze medals at World Championship level and won gold at the European Games. She ha ...

of Latvia. In that same year, she also competed in the women's freestyle 60kg event at the

2017 World Wrestling Championships The 2017 World Wrestling Championships were the 14th edition of World Wrestling Championships of combined events and was held from August 21 to 27 in Paris, France. Medal table Team ranking Medal summary Men's freestyle Men's Gre ...

held in Paris, France. At the

2020 European Wrestling Championships The 2020 European Wrestling Championships was held in Rome, Italy between 10 and 16 February 2020. Medal table Team ranking Medal summary Men's freestyle Men's Greco-Roman Women's freestyle References External linksOfficial ...

held in Rome, Italy, Ovcharova won one of the bronze medals in the women's 59kg event. In her bronze medal match she defeated Elif Yanık of Turkey. In the same year, she also won one of the bronze medals in the women's 62 kg event at the

2020 Individual Wrestling World Cup The inaugural 2020 Individual World Wrestling Cup was held in Belgrade, Serbia from 12–18 December 2020. It was a replacement event for the 2020 World Championships, which should have taken place in the same location, but since some criteria wer ...

held in Belgrade, Serbia. In March 2021, Ovcharova competed at the European Qualification Tournament in Budapest, Hungary hoping to qualify for the

in Tokyo, Japan. She was eliminated in her first match by Kriszta Incze of Romania. In April 2021, she competed in the 65kg event at the

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in Warsaw, Poland. In May 2021, she qualified at the World Olympic Qualification Tournament in Sofia, Bulgaria to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics. A month later, she won one of the bronze medals in her event at the

2021 Poland Open The 2021 Poland Open was an amateur wrestling event held in Warsaw, Poland between 8 and 13 June 2021. It served as the last United World Wrestling Ranking Series event of the year and played a role with regard to the 2020 Summer Olympics ...

held in Warsaw, Poland. In August 2021, Ovcharova lost her bronze medal match against

Taybe Yusein Taybe Mustafa Yusein ( bg, Тайбе Юсеин Мустафа; born 4 May 1991 in Kubrat) is a Bulgarian wrestler. She competes in 59 kg division and has won a total of six World championship medals and eight European championship medals. ...

of Bulgaria in the women's 62kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.

Major results

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